David, Joanna, and Abigail Mason. 1670. (M. H. de Young Memorial
Museum of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco).

A child in colonial times experienced life much differently
than we did and continue to today. We will explore these differences through
their daily lives, education, discipline and ideas on child play.

"They no sooner step than they stray, they
no sooner lisp then they ly." - Cotton Mather, Diary